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Gaurav Desai is Professor of English and African and African Diaspora Studies at Tulane University. While on campus he will be featured at three events. On Thursday, he will give a lecture considering Mohandas Gandhi’s formative, early career in South Africa, focusing on his conceptions of race in the context of the long cultural exchange …
The Adaptation Studies research group will be meeting on Friday to discuss Márta Minier’s essay, “Definitions, Dyads, Triads and Other Points of Connection in Translation and Adaptation Discourse.” If you are interested in attending and would like a copy of the reading, please contact Chip Oscarson.
Donna Lee Bowen is a Professor of Political Science and Middle East Studies. She writes on the intersection of religion, tradition and politics in the Middle East and has authored articles and a forth-coming book on attempts to construct policy which reflects Muslim sensibilities, specifically social policy concerning family planning and abortion. Prof. Bowen is …
Professor Ted Underwood, from the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, will lecture on how scholars might begin to distant-read the question of literary value.
Three scholars from our college will lead a discussion on how, when, and where to publish scholarly books: Corry Cropper (Chair of French/Italian), Van Gessel (Professor of Japanese and former dean of the college), and Kimberly Johnson (Professor of English and author of books in various genres: scholarship, poetry, and translation). The meeting will begin …
Instead of colloquium this week, we will be holding a Humanities Lab meeting with Professor O’Donnell as our guest. O’Donnell is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Lethbridge and a leading scholar in the Digital Humanities. We will discuss the state of our current DH projects and also talk with our …
The Adaptation Studies Research Group is meeting to discuss a passage from Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s classic eighteenth-century text Laöcoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry, one of the seminal texts in the long history of adaptation studies.
On Friday, February 20th, Eric Hayot will be on campus as the guest at our Humanities Center Annual Symposium. Hayot is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Penn State, and while much of his work is in Chinese he is also a major commentator on the humanities, with a great deal of wide-reaching (and very …
Malina Stefanovska from UCLA will be on campus on Wednesday to meet with the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Research Group. They will discuss the text “The World and the Anecdote in Casanova’s Histoire de Ma Vie: Between the Infinitely Large and the Infinitely Insignificant.” Malina will also give a talk for students and faculty at 3pm. Examining a French and …
Jill Rudy (English) and Jarom MacDonald (Office of Digital Humanities) will give the colloquium on Thursday. Their address is entitled “At the Crossroads of Data and Wonder: Algorithmic Visualizations of TV Fairy Tales.”